Just seen the new forecast and googled your area, not good. I just read that the eye was going up the west coast. I hope you keep your roof/s on. Were you able to move the 65 and the C-4? House prepped?

People trying to leave FL, but running out of gas n the highway

Any real updates other then what we see on the fake news network? It looks like 15' storm surge in your area.

Watching the live broadcasts from southern Florida, looks pretty ugly. The storm just made landfall near Key West but I don't think any of the news stations were crazy enough to put any of their reporters down there. They say the storm surge is 3-4 feet in Key West with worse storm surges expected on the mainland.

We haven't heard any updates from my father-in-law but the current storm track shows the eye going right over them (and Bob). They're sheltering in place. The local police actually told them not to evacuate because they're on high ground. The officials said they only wanted folks who would be innundated by storm surge to evacuate. I guess they're trying to minimize the number of people on the roads and in the shelters.

Hoping everyone makes it through OK.

Someday I'll finally be able to drive my Vette, but for now I'll just admire all the pieces...

They are predicting a possible 5-8 foot storm surge in our area. We are 18 feet above sea level and in evacuation zone D (A-E). They have called for manditory evacuations for Zones A and B and all mobile homes. We are high enough that I am not anticipating any flooding in out area.

We expect to get about 70 - 90 mph sustained winds with 110 mph gusts. Our house has all impact rated windows rated for 150 mph, all non-impact rated glass (sliding doors, etc) are protected with metal storm shutters.

My F-250 pickup and cap are blocking the entire garage door, the '95 Corvette is being stored indoors at Auto XTC (the owners are good friends of mine), the '68 is stored in my enclosed car trailer which is located in a protected storage area and the '65 is in my garage.

10 gallons of new gas for the generator, plenty of food, plenty of water, plenty of wine and plenty of ammunition

Amazingly, they STILL don't really know where this damn storm will go. It has slowed down, which is allowing more weather systems to come into play which may change it's track, or not. It was suppose to be moving at 17 mph NNW all day yesterday and hit us today, but it has been moving West at 5 mph for the last day and has just started turning Northward. We will probably know more around 5:00 this afternoon.

I have al lot of confidence out house will be fine. Our pool enclosure, another story!